Word: bijeljina
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...rainy night last week, a line of 21 gasoline tankers waited at the Bulgarian border post of Kalotina to cross into -- and allegedly through -- Serbia. Pero, the burly driver of one of the rigs, had the papers to prove that he was hauling his 32 tons of gasoline to Bijeljina, one of the first ! Bosnian towns overrun by Serbs last spring. But his truck was emblazoned with the name and address of a firm in Sid, 25 miles north of Bijeljina and inside the sanction-bound state of Serbia. Despite their suspicions that Pero and his colleague were bootlegging...
...ETHNIC VENDETTAS IN YUGOSLAVIA'S SPLINTERing republics are sowing more death, this time in newly independent, Muslim-dominated Bosnia-Herzegovina. In | the small town of Bijeljina, where Serbs and Muslims have lived side by side for centuries, independence has bloodied the community, as irregular militias fight to remain linked with neighboring Serbia. After a Muslim grenade exploded in a Serb-owned cafe last week, killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will...